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IT DOES! You guys are not going to be spared! Above is my dog Locky, he is ten now. This is him and his bestie. No kidding, the brown dog is his best friend and they are always happy to see each other. This is him again breaking into the bathroom and supervising my morning business.

Really hope it works, I found new image hosting website. I have tons, I mean tons of dog pictures.

The other day I saw a gif of Moriarty in the court room and gasp... I mistook it for a scene in The Great Game! What happened? I used to know every single scene and quote! To think it came from The Reichenbach Fall, the episode that broke me and sent me here in pieces (I thought he was really dead). Is it because I have moved on? No, it's not possible! Carol is still having problem with Photobucket. It must only have been half a year since the series, right? Anyway, I miss you all and I miss the forum where there are more of us bantering. I don't miss the weird time when the series was airing though, it was too scary for me with all the strangers and everyone was posting but no one was reading. Hope you are all well!

My landline died on me a few years ago, even though I paid for it (comes with internet). Didn't realize it until I got a handed down handset that it no longer worked. I downgrade my internet anyway and got it of it altogether. The one in my family's house is still working. I think nothing beats the satisfaction of slamming down the receiver when we are pissed. Pressing a button with a controlled rage while gritting teeth is not healthy.

Sorry it took me so long to reply to your post, Carol. I hope someday you'll get the book out there and tell us about it. I've taken steps to tell some people in real life about them, and as predicted, they are not readers/not their genre/not their language, but one who used to be my best friend in high school read it and liked it. She was my one and only co-writer. Two of us wrote a story during our last year in high school. We took turn to contribute a few paragraphs/pages each time. It was a hand-written or a few pieces of paper stapled together (and to be added accordingly). We gained some fans along the way who passed the story around and read it in the classroom or during break time. We finished it just before graduation and have been studying apart and didn't get in touch until recently in a group setting. I think she should know and I really wanted to know what she thought, so after multiple considerations (years), I told her. Okay, okay, on topic. Anyone started as adult?

I saw Ripley in February, and for some strange reason, I 'recognized' the boat. Apparently this is the TV series of the movie I saw twenty plus years ago, the one starring Matt Damon and Jude Law, so yes, I knew how the story goes and how it's going to end. It was probably a good thing because I focused more on the details. You are right, it's very beautiful, and Andrew is great. He has become one of my top character actors. I also understand what you said about compacting it because the movie was less than two hour and the essence is there.

I thought I saw Mycroft in Incredible 4 Trailer (the one with Pedro Pascal) but I could be wrong, didn't watch the movie.

Now why didn't I think of that? Thanks! The photo puzzles me, though. Here in the US, that house would presumably be called a story and a half, since the floor space upstairs is clearly limited by the slope of the roof. So I guess I'm still puzzled. But I doubt that a thorough knowledge of a floor plan is necessary for understanding the novel, so I'll just try not to worry about it!

A friend just sent me links to AI-assisted Redneck Star Trek and Redneck TNG, which I find hilarious. (All starship captains should be required to wear their hair down to their shoulders!) (I meant to put this in the Star Trek Miscellany thread, but couldn't find it, which presumably means it's high time I got into bed.)

We had recently moved from coastal southern California to Indiana. In order to keep our indoor-only cats reliably indoors, we learned to squeeze sideways through the front door, which generally worked very well. One day, however, our young California cat Daisy managed to squirt out, and heaven knows where she might have run off to. Quite fortunately, though, there was half an inch of snow on the porch. Daisy stopped dead in her tracks, clearly horrified, giving me plenty of time to scoop her up and take her back indoors. And she never ever tried that again.

Didn't "get it" till I read the second balloon. Reminds me of a joke (?) I read once, where a little kid wanted to read "that book about a boy and his pet dinosaur."

This is such an amazing idea imo

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They left the mouse on her bed -- but if it wasn't quite as dead as assumed, it may now be hiding just about anywhere in the house. My mother finally learned to look carefully before she let the cat into the house. If there was anything dangling from Star's mouth, Mom would praise her lavishly through the screen, then shut the door.

Yay, VBS! You are one brave woman! I have also written a book (and have ideas for a couple more), but *unlike* you, I have made no attempt whatsoever toward getting it published, even though it's been basically finished for years (decades, actually). And I can't even imagine writing a book in Spanish (my "second language," though I'm not nearly as good with it as you are with English). I know what you mean! I did show mine to three relatives -- *one* of whom liked it. The other two said they just don't care for that type of book, which spares my feelings a little bit -- but what if that's what they were intending to do? (Yes, I'm paranoid.) As for your "real life" reason, I think that's very logical. One of the people who read (part of) my book complained that it didn't sound like me. I suppose I should take that as a compliment, because I wasn't actually trying to sound like me, but that comment kinda threw me off balance anyhow.

People tend to assume that everyone is just as familiar with an old saying as they are, so they feel free to play with the sayings a bit -- meaning that anyone who doesn't automatically think of the original meaning is likely to be confused. This isn't quite the same thing, but it's similar: My husband and I are fond of the Nero Wolfe mystery novels written by Rex Stout -- but we often have to "translate" the dialog, because even though Stout was writing the novels into the 1970s, he had been born in the 1880s, so some of the expressions he used had changed meaning during his lifetime. (For example, when his characters say "That's fantastic!" they mean it's like a fantasy, i.e. not believable, whereas nowadays it generally means wonderful.) I'm right with you there -- the internet seems to be sprouting new sayings faster than I can keep up!

Their next ploy actually began a few months ago, more or less simultaneously with our internet service conking out. It was nothing new, really, just a vague threat that something unfortunate would happen if I didn't log into my account pretty quick. I emailed them that I had tried to log in, but gotten an error message. They emailed back with a bunch of things I could try. I emailed back that I couldn't really try all that any time soon, because I couldn't justify spending that much time at the public library. They sent me a link to try, and that finally worked -- I was logged in! But the page that came up said Recover Your Account & Reclaim Your Memories Instantly access the videos and photos we've been keeping safe for you. Recover your account today for just $5. Five bucks is no big deal -- but as the fine print admits, it isn't really "just $5," it's $5 per month, i.e., $60 per year, and of course I'd have to give them my current credit card number. And I've been there before with them. When they decide that $5 isn't enough, they'd once again (without even bothering to ask) charge me whatever they felt like, and I'd have no recourse other than asking the credit-card company to change my account number (again), which is a royal pain. So I guess I'll just let them continue keeping my photos safe!